Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Her unripe figs (touv olunqouv authv). An old word (Latin grossi) for figs that grow in winter and fall off in the spring without getting ripe (Song of Solomon 2:11 f.), here only in N.T. Jesus used the fig tree (Mark 13:28) as a sign of the "end of the world's long winter" (Swete). Cf. Isaiah 34:4; Nahum 3:12.
When she is shaken of a great wind (upo anemou megalou seiomenh). Present passive participle of seiw, "being shaken by a great wind." See Matthew 11:7 for the reed so shaken.
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